Can you imagine to rear honey bee colonies resistant to varroa and other bee diseases, with the capability to increase honey production and overcome harsh winters? “Hot dream” of every beekeeper can soon become a reality. Canadian scientist Amro Zayed at Toronto’s York University and Leonard Foster at the University of British Columbia have started project named Beenomics. Idea behind The Beenomics Project It all started due to very bad situation that the honey bees are facing today. In Canada last year beekeepers had to face terrible 50 % of honey bees decline, in the U. S.,&n ..read more

The honey bee research association COLOSS has announced the preliminary results of their international study of colony losses over the 2014-15 winter. Data were collected from 31 countries. Egypt, Russia and the Ukraine participated for the first time in this initiative, which is the largest and longest running international study of honey bee colony losses. In total 23,234 respondents provided overwintering mortality and other data of their colonies. Collectively, all responding beekeepers managed 469,249 honey bee colonies. 67,914 of these colonies were dead after wi ..read more

Early-registration period has been extended until July 12th, 2015. If you missed the chance to register for the discounted price, grab this chance. This will be the last chance you can get it because after July 13th (GMT +9) the registration fee will increase.  All bank transfer charges are to be paid by participants in advance. There is a small fee for sending money via bank transfer (KRW 10,000). Please remember to include this fee when completing your payment in advance. Registration detail info: http://www.apimondia2015.com/2015/eng/q_registration.jsp To make the scientific progr ..read more

A mystery about the bee colony collapse disorder (CCD) is dramatic, because for the last decade, scientist are working hard to find a reason and every time something about the theory was questionable. Quick overview of research for the Bee Colony Collapse Disorder Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a mystery for a European honey bee colony disappearance, because bee colony is losing almost their entire adult bee population in a short time. The name CCD appeared in the year 2006,  with a drastic rise in the number of disappearances (30-90 %) of bees in North America. Till tod ..read more

Do you like to take photos of the bees and follow with the camera when you are practicing beekeeping? Then you will like this post from Adventuresinbeeland blog. By Emily Scott: On Wednesday night I went to a talk by Simon Croson at the London Beekeepers’ Association in south London. Simon had travelled all the way down from Lincolnshire to share his expertise in taking photos of bees with us. He has taken an impressively quick journey from novice to small-scale bee farmer and bee photography prize winner. He started beekeeping in 2006 and then took his Basic Beekeeping ex ..read more

As one of the possible causes of honey bee losses, the gut pathogen Nosema ceranae has proved controversial. It seems accountable for colony losses in Spain, yet elsewhere it seems not to cause obvious problems despite being widespread. Two papers published in the Journal of Apicultural Research help to shed some light on the problem, with close studies of this organism and its relationship with its host. Nosema ceranae, a microsporidian fungus, is a relatively new pathogen of honey bees, having only been discovered in 1994 on the Asian honey bee Apis cerana. It was fo ..read more

Bees are saving the world, one again. From the report of the American Chemical Society (ASC), we can read that snake, scorpion or bee venom could form the basis of a new generation of cancer-fighting drug. As they say, it is possible to target venom proteins specifically to malignant cells while sparing healthy ones, which reduces or eliminates side effects that the toxins would otherwise cause. Video of Bee Venom as potential cancer-fighting drug “We have safely used venom toxins in tiny nanometer-sized particles to treat breast cancer and melanoma cells in the laboratory,” says Dipanja ..read more

Lund University (Sweden) published news that scientist found bacteria in bees which shows a potential alternative to antibiotics. It`s fascinating what everything new we found out about the bees. When we think we know almost everything, scientist are going one more step forward. For know they tested in lab group of bacteria, found in stomach of bees, and they were fighting antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Why do we need an alternative to antibiotics? If you didn`t hear. World Health Organization (WHO) release in April 2014 first warning:  global report on antibiotic resistance that re ..read more

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